Lagatar24 Desk
Coimbatore, March 4: The Coimbatore district collector responded to the false information that went viral on social media about migrant workers being severely beaten up in Tamil Nadu, in which two people died, by saying that false information is being distributed.
This occurred after Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar, tweeted on Thursday that he was concerned about an event in Tamil Nadu that claimed the lives of two labourers from Bihar.
Tamil Nadu | There is no clash between the migrant workers & local workers and the circulation of such information is false and not revealing of the true state of affairs: Confederation of Indian Textile Industry and Southern India Mills' Association pic.twitter.com/TeH3zgoguZ
— ANI (@ANI) March 4, 2023
Assuring the safety of North Indian employees in Tamil Nadu, the district collectors in Coimbatore and Tiruppur, where a significant number of migrant workers live, have now issued appeals in Hindi.
According to this statement from the district collector of Coimbatore, false information about the safety of employees from northern states in Coimbatore is being disseminated on social media and on WhatsApp, and as a result, they are abandoning the city.
Recently, a video showing migrant workers from Bihar being violently beaten went viral on social media. The chief minister of Bihar expressed his concern for the migrants’ safety on Twitter.
A few hours later, Tamil Nadu authorities asserted that the social media video purporting to show Bihar labourers being killed was fake.
“Somebody in Bihar has posted a false and misleading video regarding migrant workers from Bihar being attacked in Tamil Nadu. Two videos which are circulating on social media regarding the incident are false. The facts of the videos are twisted so as to appear that migrant workers living in Tamil Nadu are being attacked,” Posting a video on social media, DGP Tamil Nadu Shailendra Babu said.
